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korvamerkki — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • earmark noun A mark or tag put on an animal's ear, usually a farm animal, to show something about it such as who owns it or its health.

Senses

korvamerkki is used for these senses in English:

  • ear tag (agriculture) To apply an ear tag to an animal.
  • earmark (chiefly, agriculture) A mark made or tag attached to the ear of an animal (chiefly a livestock animal), generally to identify or indicate something about the animal, such as ownership, health or gestation status, etc.
  • earmark A distinguishing or identifying mark or sign; specifically (archaic) , a mark of ownership.
  • halfpenny (chiefly, Australia, US, agriculture, archaic) A usually semicircular earmark made in the ear of a livestock animal.

earmark — full definition

  1. noun A mark or tag put on an animal's ear, usually a farm animal, to show something about it such as who owns it or its health.
  2. noun A sign that identifies something; in old use, a mark showing who owned it.
  3. noun The setting aside of money for a particular purpose.
  4. noun (US) Money that Congress has set aside for one particular project.
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